About China's Coolest Cars
A Subaru Impreza WRX STi, seen on a car market in south Beijing. The speedy Japanese hatchback looked all the business; painted in Impreza blue and fitted with the almost obligatory gold multispoke alloy wheels. The enormous air inlet on the bonnet screams hardcore power.
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A majestic Hongqi CA7200E3L, seen in the winter of 2011 alongside the Second Ring Road in Beijing. The big Red Flag was in a great shape. As always, it was painted in black. And also as always, it was very dusty.
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A very speedy Ferrari GTB Fiorano, seen in Beijing in 2011. The good Ferrari seemed brand new and didn’t even have license plates yet. It was painted in a shiny shade of black with a matte gray roof and a silver racing stripe over the bonnet, roof, and rear.
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Here we have a great Audi 200 2.4 V6 sedan, seen in Beijing back in 2011. The Audi was in a perfect shape, almost as if it left the factory a day earlier. It is painted in black, which, I think, was the best color for this car, and it is fitted with the original factory wheels.
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A Mitsubishi 3000GT sporty car, seen in the great city of Xiamen in Fujian Province by Pinut187 in 2013, thank you for the pictures! The 3000GT was very dirty and dusty but in a good general shape. All it needed was some love and a good cleanup.
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Welcome to Black License Plate Mania In Beijing Part 6 (Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5), where we look at cars with black license plates in the Chinese capital. On the first picture a Chevrolet Corsica with 京A·08917.
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A pretty Tianma Fengchi KZ6490E SUV, seen in the great city of Guangzhou in Guangdong Province in 2015. It is a typical old-school Chinese SUV; simple and cheap, slow and barely reliable, but somehow kinda cool.
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A Rolls-Royce Cullinan, seen in Beijing in 2021 by Joachim, thank you for the photo! The gigantic Roller is painted in an interesting bespoke color scheme with a turquoise blue body and the matte gray bonnet and roof. The windows are darkened and it stands on the standard 5-twin spoke wheels.
The Cullinan is a boat of car with suicide doors, 5.3 meters long and weighing a massive 2.7 ton. Price is steep too, starting at 6.1 million yuan. Happily, it has lots of power to move its weight. Engine is a 6.7 liter twin-turbocharged V12 engine with an output of 563 hp and 850 Nm.
The engine is mated to an 8-speed automatic transmission sending horses to all four wheels. Top speed is limited to 250 kilometers per hour and 0-100 is gone in 5.2 seconds. It takes a but of gasoline though, as the Cullinan drinks 14.9 liters per 100 kilometer, no matter which color is has.
A Tesla Model S, seen at a Tesla charging station in Beijing in January 2019 by Lao Wei, thank you for the picture! The Model S was wrapped in a matte pink rosé wrap, and further dressed up with darkened rear windows, dark headlight visors, and dark black wheels. Inside sits a female with a yellow cap on her head, it seems she is looking at her phone.
The wrap seems high quality and it is neatly wrapped around the whole car, leaving only the window frames and the door handles. Like in the rest of the world, Tesla only offers a very limited number of colors for their cars in China. Wraps are cheap so many Tesla’s get the wrapping treatment.
Current price of the Tesla Model S in 2019 started at 722.800 yuan, which was, and still is, very steep. The Model S never really took off in China but the X became quite popular. But Tesla sales really took off with the Tesla Model 3, and later on with the China-made Model 3.
A Renault Scenic RX4, seen in Beijing in 2019. The old Renault was in a fine shape, looking as rough as ever and painted in a light shade of green that was the most popular color fir this car in period.
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